If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
YANN MARTELAt moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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